Saffron Days in L.A.

by Bhante Walpola Piyananda

  1. Mahaparinibbana Sutta, in Digha Nikaya (Rangoon, Burma: Burma Pitaka Association, 1984), p. 5.

  2. Dhammapada, v. 160.

  3. Dhammapada, v. 276.

  4. Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., Vimansaka Sutta, in Majjhima Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), p. 415.

  5. Richard Morris, ed., Kalama Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya (London: Pali Text Society, 1961), pp. 188–93.

  6. Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., Alagaduppama Sutta, in Majjhima Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), p. 224.

  7. H. Saddhatissa, trans., Khaggavisana Sutta, in Sutta Nipata (London: Curzon Press, 1987), p. 4.

  8. Dhammapada, v. 160, 167.

  CHAPTER SIX: The Punks Meet the Monk

  1. E. Hardy, ed., Paharada Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 4 (London: Pali Text Society, 1958), p. 197.

  2. Andersen Dines, ed. Subhasita Sutta Suttanipata (Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1990), pp. 78‒79.

  3. Dhammapada, v. 5.

  4. Thera Narada, The Buddha and His Teachings (Colombo, Sri Lanka: Vajirarama, 1973), chap. 43.

  5. Dhammapada, v. 36.

  CHAPTER SEVEN: The Balancing Act

  1. Edward Muller, ed., Dhammasangani (London: Pali Text Society, 1885), p. 22.

  2. Narada Thera, A Manual of Abhidhamma (Singapore: Singapore Budddhist Meditation Center, 1989), pp. 87, 93, 304, 332, 337, 344, 361.

  3. E. M. Hare, trans., Sona Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 3 (London: Pali Text Society, 1973), p. 266.

  4. Dhammapada, v. 166.

  CHAPTER EIGHT: Karmic Ties

  1. Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Life of the Buddha (Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1984), pp. 20‒29.

  2. M. Leon, ed., Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta, in Samyutta Nikaya (London: Pali Text Society, 1976), pp. 420–24.

  3. Dr. Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught (London: Gordon Frazer, 1978), p. 16.

  4. Dhammapada, v. 204.

  5. Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Noble Eightfold Path (Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1984), Wheel Publication No. 308/311.

  6. E. Hardy, ed., Upavana Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 3 (London: Pali Text Society), 1976, p. 195.

  7. Ibid., p. 196.

  8. M. Leon, ed., Manibhadda Sutta, in Samyutta Nikaya, vol. 1 (London: Pali Text Society, 1973), p. 208.

  9. Ibid., p. 227.

  10. K. N. Jayatilleka, The Message of the Buddha (New York: Free Press, 1975), pp. 112–18.

  11. Robert Chalmers, ed., Majjhima Nikaya, vol. 3. Cullakamma Vibhanga Sutta (London: Pali Text Society, 1977), pp. 202–6.

  12. Dhammapada, v. 219–20.

  CHAPTER NINE: Detachment—A Way of Life

  1. V. Renckner, ed., Ariyapariyesana Sutta, in Majjhima Nikaya, vol. 1 (London: Pali Text Society, 1979), p. 163.

  2. Ibid., Mahasaccaka Sutta, p. 240.

  3. R. L. Mitra, trans., Lalitavistara English (Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1998), pp. 247–48.

  4. Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Path, White Clouds (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991), p. 83.

  5. Luke 14:36. New Oxford Annotated Bible (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).

  6. Dhammapada, v. 294.

  7. Digha Nikaya, Sigalovada Sutta (Rangoon, Burma: Burma Pitaka Association, 1984), p. 442.

  8. Dhammapada, v. 67–68.

  CHAPTER TEN: A Lady of the Night

  1. Marye Lilley, ed., Apadana, Patacara Part 2 (London: Pali Text Society, 1927), pp. 557–60.

  2. Maurice Walshe, trans., Cakkavathi Sihanada Sutta, p. 395, and Kutadanta Sutta, p. 175, in Digha Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995).

  3. Robert Chalmers, ed., Majjhima Nikaya, vol. 3 (London: Pali Text Society, 1977), p. 296; and Nyanaponika Thera, Buddhist Dictionary (Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1970), p. 120.

  4. Dhammapada, v. 24.

  CHAPTER ELEVEN: Fidelity and Faith

  1. Dhammapada, v. 246–47.

  2. Dr. Hammalawa Saddhatissa, Buddhist Ethics (New York: George Braziller, 1970), pp. 87–112.

  3. Dhammapada, v. 215.

  4. Dhammapada, v. 334.

  CHAPTER TWELVE: Buddhist Prosperity

  1. E. Hardy, ed., Anathapindika Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 3 (London: Pali Text Society, 1976), p. 45.

  2. A. K. Warder, ed., Anathapindika Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 1 (London: Pali Text Society, 1961), p. 128.

  3. E. Hardy, ed., Vayagapajja Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 4 (London: Pali Text Society, 1958), p. 281.

  4. F. L. Woodward, trans. The Shopkeeper (B) Sutta: The Book of the Gradual Sayings, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 1 (London: Pali Text Society, 1979), p. 100.

  5. Ibid., The Shopkeeper (A) Sutta, pp. 99‒100.

  6. Maurice Walshe, trans., Mahaparinibbana Sutta, in Digha Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1987), p. 236.

  7. Ibid., Sigalovada Sutta, p. 466.

  8. U. Thitthila, trans., The Book of Analysis: Vibhanga (London: Pali Text Society, 1988), p. 434.

  9. Dhammapada, v. 172.

  10. Dhammapada, v. 224.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Healing Powers of Chanting

  1. Dr. Lily de Silva, Spolia Zeylanika, vol. 36: Part I, Paritta (Colombo, Sri Lanka: The National Museums of Sri Lanka, 1981), pp. 3–4.

  2. Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda, What Buddhists Believe, 3rd ed. (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Buddhist Missionary Society, 1982), p. 205.

  3. Thera Piyadassi, The Book of Protection (Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1975), pp. 11–21.

  4. Dhammapadaatthakatha, Ayuvaddana Kumara, vol. 2, p. 235.

  5. Richard Morris, ed., Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 7 (London: Pali Text Society, 1976), p. 172.

  6. Dhammapada, v. 183.

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The London Doctor

  1. Richard Morris, ed., Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 2 (London: Pali Text Society, 1976), p. 70.

  2. Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1955), pp. 41–42.

  3. Harvey B. Aronson, Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism (Delhi: Motilal Banarsdas, 1980), pp. 78–85.

  4. Maurice Walshe, trans., Sigalovada Sutta, in Digha Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), pp. 236, 461.

  5. Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda, Happy Married Life (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Buddhist Missionary Society, 1986), pp. 10‒23.

  6. Maurice Walshe, trans., Sigalovada Sutta, in Digha Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), pp. 236, 461.

  7. Dhammapada, v. 279.

  8. Dhammapada, v. 50.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Children Change Us

  1. Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., Abhayarajakumara Sutta, in Majjhima Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), p. 498.

  2. Sigalovada Sutta, in Digha Nikaya (Rangoon, Burma: Burma Pitaka Association, 1984), p. 436.

  3. Richard Morris, ed., Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 1 (London: Pali Text Society, 1961), p. 62.

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Alcoholic

  1. Sigalovada Sutta, in Digha Nikaya (Rangoon, Burma: Burma Pitaka Association, 1984), p. 435.

  2. Dhammapada, v. 173.

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Painful Consequences

  1. Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., Ambalattikarahulovada Sutta, in Majjhima Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), p. 525.

  2. H. T. Francis, trans., Bhisapuppha Jataka (392), in The Jataka, vol. 3 (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1994), p. 192.

  3. Dhammapada, v. 25.

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Sunbather

  1. Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., Mulapariyaya Sutta (1) and Maharahulovada Sutta (62), in Majjhima Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), pp. 83, 527.

  2. Bhikkhu Nanamoli, trans., Visuddhimagga (Singapore: Singapore Buddhist Meditation Center, 1997), ch. 1, p. 55.

  3. Eugene W. Burlingame, trans., Buddhist Legends: Dhammapada Commentary, Part 2 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 330–34.

  4. Dhammapada, v. 412.

  CHAPTER NINETEEN: Appearances Aore Deceiving

  1. E. Hardy, ed., Vassakara Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 4 (Lond
on: Pali Text Society, 1958), p. 183.

  2. Eugene W. Burlingame, trans., Buddhist Legends: Dhammapada Commentary, Part 2 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 284–86.

  3. Eugene W. Burlingame, trans., Buddhist Legends: Dhammapada Commentary, Part 3 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 189–91.

  4. Dhammapada, v. 227.

  5. Dhammapada, v. 228.

  CHAPTER TWENTY: The Seven Types of Wealth

  1. E. Hardy, ed., Satta Dhana Sutta, in Anguttara Nikaya, vol. 4 (London: Pali Text Society, 1958), pp. 4–5.

  2. Dhammapada, v. 204.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Bhante Walpola Piyananda is the founder-president and Abbot of Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles, California. He was born in 1943, in Walpola, a rural village in Sri Lanka. At the age of twelve, Bhante was ordained as a novice monk. He gave up his lay given name and family name, taking the name of his village “Walpola,” and was given the Buddhist name Piyananda, meaning “pleasant joy.” Upon assuming the name of his village as his new “surname,” in accordance with Sri Lankan tradition, he showed that he now belonged not to his biological family, but to his entire village, typically the widest level of organization in a traditional rural society.

  Bhante received his full ordination as a monk, or Bhikkhu, in 1970, and after completing his education in Sri Lanka (B.A. Hon. Kaleniya University) and India (M.A. Calcutta University), he came to the United States for further studies in 1976. Bhante received an additional M.A. from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1980, and in 1985 he completed the requirements for his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also received a Ph.D from the College of Buddhist Studies in Los Angeles in 1997. Bhante Piyananda is president of the Sangha Council of Southern California, and occupies the position of Chief Sangha Nayaka Thera in America. Over time, he has performed numerous services for Southeast Asian refugee groups in the Los Angeles area, and served as Buddhist Chaplain for the 1984 Olympics. He teaches the Dhamma and meditation at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara, one of the oldest Theravada Buddhist temples in North America.

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